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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Fillmore County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Samuel Thompson Dickson House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Dickson, Samuel Thompson, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 225 3rd St., SW, Chatfield, 55923
- When was it listed? August 1985
- Category. building
- City. Chatfield city
- National Register reference number. 85001755 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Samuel Thompson Dickson House between 1994 and 2003, burning about 42 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 10 May 1997 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 29 April 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 13 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Samuel Thompson Dickson House: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fillmore Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| L Plenge Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Plenge Mine | Iron | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
21 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatfield, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Chatfield | $50,000 | Thunderstorms with heavy rain dropped 3 to 5 inches of rain across the northwest portions of Fillmore County. This caused some flash flooding to occur, which was mainly water going over roads. Water from Mill Creek flooded a park in the southwest side of Chatfield and went over County Road 2. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatfield | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatfield | $5,000 | The public reported several large tree branches blown onto a house. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatfield | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in Chatfield. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Chatfield | $2,000 | Mudslides were reported along Highway 52. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatfield | $750 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatfield | $750 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Hail | Chatfield | - | The public reported quarter sized hail 1 mile southwest of Chatfield. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Chatfield | - | The public reported quarter sized hail in Chatfield. The report was relayed via social media. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Chatfield | - | The public reported quarter sized hail 1 mile east-southeast of Chatfield. The report was relayed via social media. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatfield | - | The public reported a large tree split in half in Chatfield. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Chatfield | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail was reported in Chatfield. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chatfield | - | An estimated 70 mph wind gust occurred west of Chatfield. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Chatfield | - | Quarter sized hail was reported in Chatfield. |
| August 2010 | Flood | Chatfield | - | Water was over County Road 2 west of Chatfield. |
| September 2010 | Heavy Rain | Chatfield | - | The storm total rainfall was 4.75 inches. |
| May 2004 | Hail | Chatfield | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Chatfield | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Chatfield | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Chatfield | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Chatfield | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Chatfield Public Library | 0.2 miles | 1982 |
 | George H. Haven House | 0.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Lovell, Ellen, M., House | 0.4 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 85001755 in Record Group 79. |
| Fillmore County | All 36 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.